Neuroscience

Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.

Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.

Every brain’s white matter is different—and that might hold the key to better treatments.

One question for Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College London.

Why Black people are poorly represented in neuroimaging studies—and how science can do better.

Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves.

One question for Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University.

I’ve created organoids that, surprisingly, have a lot to say about how the brain works.

What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less.

If the brain can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality, what can?

Maternal care offers a window on our social instincts.

The uniqueness of each mind is written in its ever-changing circuitry.

Why the father of neuroscience, toward the end of his career, preferred to study ants.

Does the body rule the mind? Or does the mind rule the body?

But what if it’s telling them a false story?